A Journalists Guide to Uncovering Corporate Lobbying
DeSmog UK managing editor Mat Hope and reporter Chloe Farand will share their experiences of tracking corporate lobbying and its impact on environmental issues as the UK prepares to leave the EU. Come along to learn what tools and skills you need to expose the stories behind the headlines.
Mat Hope is Editor of DeSmog UK. He has been investigating and exposing the politics behind climate inaction for various outlets for over a decade. He has a PhD in the political communication of climate change.
Chloe Farand is a freelance journalist and reporter for DeSmog UK specialising in uncovering corporate wrongdoing. She has had articles published in the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman and Bella Caledonia.
This workshop is for media or activists interested in how to trace hidden corporate interference in democracy.
Racism in the Media: See it, Say it, Sorted?
This workshop will help you both spot, critique and expose racism in the mainstream media, especially the national press.
Bella Figura Workshop: Learn how to live, love and eat like an Italian to transform your life
Come to this workshop to learn how ‘living like an Italian’ can succeed where other lifestyle regimens do not, and how saying YES instead of NO can help you find your inner Sophia Loren.
Solidarity - Persecuted Journalists Abroad
Gary Allison, director at POC, explores how we can show solidarity with and provide support to the many brave journalists who have reported on human rights abuses and consequently live under threat for their and their families' lives, are often left indigent and stateless and who deserve support to rebuild their lives in new countries.
Narrative Cannibals: Whose story is it anyway?
This workshop will consider storytelling and strategies of power, who speaks for whom? And secondly, what is documentary truth? The relationship between subject, filmmaker and audience and the construction of truth.
Produce a best selling podcast in your bedroom
Deeivya Meir, creator of the hit podcast of UNTOLD: The Daniel Morgan murder, will take you through what is needed, from conception to delivery, to making a best selling podcast.
The post-truth business
In this session, Sean Pillot de Chenecey, will discuss the interconnected issues impacting brands.
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence with Data Journalism
This interactive workshop introduces you to data journalism. Through hands on activities, you’ll learn what artificial intelligence is and isn’t, how robots navigate the physical world and why computers get things right but for the wrong reasons, and how this leads to inequality and social problems.
It's not just sticks and stones
Martin Burrows and Mat Amp’s workshop will show just how widespread and ingrained these prejudices are through video and paper clippings. They will draw light to the words the media to describe marginalised people and how that impacts the way we think.
The Post Truth Business
In this session, Sean Pillot de Chenecey, will discuss the interconnected issues impacting brands.
Two Lives one Truth - A miscarriage of Justice
Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton are into their 10th year in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. This workshop explains that they were convicted despite evidence being tampered with.
The Kitchen Table Writer - Structure
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
The Kitchen Table Writer - Free Writing
This 4 part workshop will take you through the steps of becoming a novelist, playwright or a screenplay writer! Freewriting is a vital tool for total beginners as well as for more experienced writers!
Authors Wanted! Write here, write now
An exciting opportunity for young authors aged 7-12 to take part in a free writing workshop with Sussex Young Authors founder, Amanda Di Clemente.
How to Un-Fuck Up
This workshop will help anybody who 'does life' and wants to see ways to improve their perspective, themselves or help others.
How to Riot
You’ll learn basic protest skills, how to stay safe in fast-moving crowds, how to avoid getting trapped in a police kettle and how to break out if you are!